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Press Pass | Jaguars Leadership Q&A on Orlando 2027 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: No, it won't be all done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've already started well, and the emphasis obviously
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: once we closer to twenty six, we'll be on twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: With the ground, the low will be laid, the foundation
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  Speaker 1: will be laid.
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  Speaker 2: Start working with partners and how we're gonna operate and
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  Speaker 2: kind of timing everything else so that when the season's over,
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  Speaker 2: we think can have the whole building, including our coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: really involved in the details of how we're gonna operate.
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  Speaker 2: Because the last thing we want to do right now
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  Speaker 2: is have any of our coaches worrying about twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: We have enough to worry about with twenty six right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, will you treat it when you treat this like
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  Speaker 3: a road game in terms of you'll come up bus.
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  Speaker 1: Down Saturday and then stay the night, and then Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: Will view this as a home game because with a
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  Speaker 2: long commute to the office, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's how we feel. I mean we think listen,
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  Speaker 1: Number one, we.
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  Speaker 2: Think a lot of our fans will come down from Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: We think we have a ton of fans in Orlando.
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  Speaker 2: We also know that there's a ton of NFL fans.
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  Speaker 2: And then that with the you combine that with an
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  Speaker 2: amount of visiting teams are gonna want to come to Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: To watch their team play. I mean it's a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's somebody with five kids as.
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  Speaker 2: Got quite a bit of time on nine to five
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  Speaker 2: and four head to Disney, so we're familiar with it,
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  Speaker 2: and I know my family is excited about coming down
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  Speaker 2: to watching the NFL and watching the Jaguars play here.
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  Speaker 1: Whom the Advans are already.
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  Speaker 4: But we have a lot of logistics so we get
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  Speaker 4: bust down on a eighty four would just be like
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  Speaker 4: an all the world game with a flight you know
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  Speaker 4: that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're working on that right now.
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  Speaker 2: We have a whole team across the entire organization, different
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  Speaker 2: departments working through the logistics to planning because it's not
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  Speaker 2: just the football operation side, but it's also business.
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  Speaker 1: We have sponsors, we have our fans, we have our players'.
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  Speaker 2: Families that we're gonna have to think about because they're
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  Speaker 2: coming down.
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  Speaker 1: They all a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: Have small kids, and so it's a whole organization effort
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  Speaker 2: to put the details together.
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  Speaker 1: We're at the very beginning stages. We'll spend a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time in this offseason working.
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  Speaker 2: On that so that we can focus on twenty six
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  Speaker 2: once the twenty six season gets here, and then at
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  Speaker 2: the end of that, going into the next offseason, we'll
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  Speaker 2: start looping in our coaches.
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  Speaker 1: At that point. Right now they're focused on twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: How much organization where you just have to embrace the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: This is obviously abnormal, but you guys are used to
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  Speaker 4: that a little bit with London.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, you got to do that to be successful, right,
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  Speaker 1: to just embrace it. We look at it as an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a great opportunity for us.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: You build a football team, the engineer football team that
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  Speaker 2: could play anywhere, and we believe that.
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  Speaker 1: We believe that we have a.
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  Speaker 2: Right head coach and Lamb and the general manager and
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  Speaker 2: James the engineer team to put together that we'll play. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we love our home stadium and playing in Jacksonville, but
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  Speaker 2: we play in London.
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  Speaker 1: We go on the road. We had five West Coast games.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure we did okay last year on the
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  Speaker 2: West Coast and we'll come to Orlando when it's time
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  Speaker 2: and we'll be ready to play down here. We're looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to playing in front of other fans in camping.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's great and there's a lot more to
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  Speaker 4: do and we beat on Yeah, so it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Day.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned having some connection to the city of Orlando
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  Speaker 3: has been in a lot of time here.
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  Speaker 4: How exciting is it to know twenty twenty seven you'll
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  Speaker 4: get to spend a little bit more time here you
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  Speaker 4: have to rediscover.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: God show how much more grow can there be in
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  Speaker 4: the fan base from what you guys have done in London,
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  Speaker 4: but also just regionally here with Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to see.
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  Speaker 3: The reality is the state of Florida's population is massive
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  Speaker 3: and the NFL is an extremely popular sport in the
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  Speaker 3: state of Florida. We believe that there's an access of
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  Speaker 3: two hundred thousand Jaguar fans who currently live in Central Florida.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't define a fan simply by those that
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  Speaker 3: go to the games. But in this particular case, I
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  Speaker 3: think we'll be able to deliver a much much closer
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  Speaker 3: connection between our fans in Central Florida and the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: and to the degree people you know, fall in love,
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  Speaker 3: which are large or if we have great success down here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they could end up continuing to be Jaguar fans.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, keep in mind this is this is
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  Speaker 3: necessary because of a commitment that Shod made to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't for that long term prove to Jacksonville by
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  Speaker 3: Shod and the city of Jacksonville, we wouldn't be down mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: The books being supportive and helpful. And this how important
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  Speaker 1: is that they were involved.
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  Speaker 2: In this process.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The important thing is you want all thirty one clubs
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  Speaker 3: supporting us, and you know they've been part of it.
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  Speaker 4: Were they more part of it than other teams?
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  Speaker 1: And if sir, how well?
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  Speaker 3: A lot of it is logistics and we had more
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  Speaker 3: conversations with the Bucks than we had with all the
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  Speaker 3: other teams because of their proximity. You know this, this
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  Speaker 3: is a really important point. The Orlando television market is massive.
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  Speaker 3: It's I think it's the fourteenth largest television market in
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  Speaker 3: the country. Not talking about just the city of Orlando,
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  Speaker 3: the Orlando television mark because that's what matters. Okay, there
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  Speaker 3: are portions of the Orlando television market that are exclusive
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  Speaker 3: territory for the Buccaneers. There's portions of the Orlando television
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  Speaker 3: market Daytona, Melbourne that are exclusive territory of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 3: There's portions of it where we share in the Ocalam market,
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  Speaker 3: and there's others where any team can go in there.
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  Speaker 3: So when you have that type of complexity, We've had
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  Speaker 3: a radio affiliate in here since the inaugural season, We've
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  Speaker 3: had a television affiliate here since the inaugural season. Our
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  Speaker 3: games get prior priority when they're.
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  Speaker 1: On broadcast TV down here.
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  Speaker 3: So it is a market that we truly both operate
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  Speaker 3: in and because of that, we should have had more
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  Speaker 3: conversations with the Buccaneers than we would with the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 1: Ort away. With that said, could you see yourself not
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eight but down the road playing a preseason
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  Speaker 1: game in Orlando just to keep that relationship growing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I don't when project that
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  Speaker 3: preseason games are changing quite a bit, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: that would have to be coupled in all likelihood with
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  Speaker 3: practices that the teams would have before the preseason game.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you'd also have the reality of we
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  Speaker 3: only you know, we we've committed to Jacksonville and we
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  Speaker 3: don't necessarily have the flexibility to other than those games
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  Speaker 3: that are part of NFL the series to be taking
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  Speaker 3: games all thet the pics.
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  Speaker 1: But Mark for season ticket holders, what do you know
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  Speaker 1: that you can share.
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  Speaker 4: With Jacksonville season ticket holders about twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jacksonville season ticket holders, we'll get the first opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to buy tickets, and then from that point we will
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  Speaker 3: continue a public sale.
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  Speaker 1: In short order, we will be.
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  Speaker 3: Announcing a way for individuals to register interest in tickets.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of us probably going to come here from
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  Speaker 3: Central Florida, not necessarily from Jacksonville, and we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's great to hear the optimism from
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  Speaker 3: everybody down here. I know Shod is confident. We want
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  Speaker 3: to have an awesome year that year. We want the
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  Speaker 3: stadium to be full, we want the broadcast to be
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  Speaker 3: high quality, we want the fan experience to be top notch,
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  Speaker 3: we want the performance on the field to be great.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we're all collectively even more confident in Orlando,
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  Speaker 3: you know, than we may have been a month ago.
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  Speaker 4: Do you anticipate knowing how many home games in Orlando
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  Speaker 4: there will be prior to the normal NFL schedule or
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  Speaker 4: would that be when the schedule was released in these
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  Speaker 4: forty one of self.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's it's hard to project that because
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  Speaker 3: there's still you you even't heard conversations coming out of
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  Speaker 3: the meetings in Phoenix about maybe a change to the schedule,
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  Speaker 3: so that would that would impact that. What we know
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  Speaker 3: today is we have ten home games in twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 3: one preseason, nine regular seas games. We know one of
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  Speaker 3: the nine regular season games is a game that the
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  Speaker 3: league is taking from us and taking it to London.
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  Speaker 3: It's our turn to give up a home game. Beyond that,
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  Speaker 3: there's no other commands.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know anything about primetime games.
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  Speaker 1: This year or next year?
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  Speaker 4: Because of the situation forty two thousand capacity in Jacksonville
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  Speaker 4: and then the Orlando are you guys still have would
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  Speaker 4: you be having to involve?
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  Speaker 3: Capacity is not going to impact the number of primetime
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  Speaker 3: games that we have in Jacksonville.